Voting for the by-election of Nantou legislators will be held on March 4, and registration will be accepted from January 9 to 13. DPP candidate Cai Peihui will go to the Nantou County Election Commission to register at 9:00 am on the 11th, while the KMT candidate and retired county magistrate Lin Mingqin will also go to register at 10:00 am on the same day. In this regard, New Taipei City Councilor Zhuo Guanting bluntly stated in a Facebook post: “Will the son win the election and replace the father’s election? The KMT is going to stage a very blind show in the Nantou Legislative Committee by-election.”
The KMT recently conducted internal reference polls on Lin Mingqin’s son Lin Rubin, Nantou County Councilor You Hao, Nantou Mayor Song Huailin, and others who expressed their candidacy. At the same time, they also included Lin Mingqin in the internal polls, and finally selected the internal polls as “the most likely to win” Lin Mingqin is running for the election. Zhuo Guanting said: “The next legislator by-election will be held in Nantou County. I didn’t expect that just following the runaway drama of Wang Hongwei in Taipei, there will be another family politics drama in Nantou. The former county magistrate Lin Mingqin said he would not be elected , I’m going to be a legislator once more.”
Zhuo Guanting pointed out that the 71-year-old Lin Mingqin, because his son Lin Rubin might not win the other candidates of his own Kuomintang in the polls, simply jumped out of his own position and squeezed out his comrades in the party. As early as when Lin Mingqin was still the county magistrate, “In order to train his son to elect a legislator, he secretly set up black officials in the county government, and let his son ostentatiously wear the county magistrate’s special aid vest. What I think regarding is not how to make Nantou better, but to return to the exchange of family interests and the political spoils.”
Zhuo Guanting continued: “If Lin Mingqin is re-elected as a legislator, Nantou may become a “Nantou country” outside of Hualien County, where the county magistrate and legislators are exchanged. Nantou County has lost regarding 20,000 people since Lin Mingqin took office. In 2018 The year fell below the 500,000 mark, and now there are only 470,000 people left. If Nantou voters are really doing good for their hometown, they must think regarding pushing Nantou into a “Nantou country” controlled by the family. How can the young people in Nantou have hope? “
